The Descent of Rights and the Descent of Persons

Explication and evaluation of the relative ethnographic and theoretical merits of several constructions of "descent" and "descent groups" (by W. H. R. Rivers, M. Fortes, and W. Goodenough, among others) reveals that relations of descent can have right and duty values only where p...

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Mothers
Necessary conditions
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Social groups
Social structure and social relations
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